Single women and welfare

Fact: A single mom with one child gets at most $437.00 per month in cash. For each additional child it goes up about $89.00 per month. But if you have another child while on welfare, you don't get any additonal money for that child.
Any income from a job, child support or whatever comes off that amount. The amount hasn't changed since about 1964. (Thanks Bruce Hornsby for the song "That's Just the Way It Is", for reminding me that "they passed a law back in '64 to give those who need just a little more", or something like that.)
The most that mom and child can get for Food Stamps is about $250 dollars per month. You can't use Food Stamps to buy toilet paper, laundry soap, diapers, etc. just food.

Fact: The most amout of "welfare" dollars are spent on single women.
If you count money spent on Medicaid as welfare than this statement is true. But the money is not being spent on that single mom with kids. It's being spent on grandma in the nursing home. Nursing home costs average over $4,000 per month.

Hmm... $432 per month .... $4,000 per month.

Why isn't any one talking in Washington about all the seminars lawyers and financial planners are giving to teach people how to "protect their assets" and not have to pay for their nursing home costs with their own money. After all you earned that money so you should have every right to give it to your heirs and let the government (tax payers) pay for your medical care while your heirs go to Tahiti.

No, it's much easier to get people thinking about those women who keep having babies so they can get rich off of welfare than it is to admit that if we want to rein in some of our abuses in the welfare system we need to admit that medicaid is also welfare.